This post is the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Online Test Drive Guide, a high level guided tour of the application to help you get the most out of your 30-day trial experience. The guide will take you through key steps to a successful experience starting from the initial setup to using Microsoft Dynamics...

I’m pleased to announce that the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 Service Provider Planning and Deployment Guide Office Word document is now available on the Microsoft Download Center. This document is intended for service provider IT personnel, system integrators, and technical consultants who may assist...

This morning i was reading the blog post from Arend-Jan Kaufmann regarding opening Classic databases with the correct executable version. You can see his blog post here: Suggestion for Available Databases Form in Dynamics NAV It reminded me of a tool i basically use on a daily basis, as well as many...

Thanks to Microsoft Reporting Services PDF Rendering Extension, all RTC reports can be exported to PDF. At least that is benefit coming back to us, while struggling with the report creations (read post from Alex Chow: How to define Set/GetData). In order to get the PDF, that gets generated on the service...

This post is a follow up to some of my previous posts about the Send to Word/Excel features of Dynamics NAV. As you know, it uses a stylesheet (xslt file), that is being read into memory and the codeunit 403 inserts values into the document. This is definitely one of the cool demo features, when [.....

Last week while being onsite at a customers site, we suddenly needed the ability to compare 2 records to see if any changes were done to the data. We were using the Archive functionality for Purchase Headers, and due to some needed modifications (in the release function) we ended up storing a lot of...

Yesterdays post on assigning MenuSuite Menu’s programatically got a lot of hits, and i have been getting a couple of emails about how to create the data for the blob field. In this post I will show how to build the BLOB generator i Dynamics NAV. The BLOB content is reverse engineered on Mayank’s...

After switching blogging software, due to a server crash i never really got the old posts reposted from the original blog. I have had a lot of requests for one particular post: Dynamics NAV and the ROT table. I started finding the old backup of the database, to restore the post and realized it is [....

Yet another…! As a regular Dynamics NAV blog reader i am sure you have seen this before, in various flavors, but here is a simple yet powerful splash screen. The main purpose of this splash screen, has been to easily identify development, test and live database configurations, and also show information...

Since Dynamics NAV version 5, when RIM was introduced there has been the functionality for Data Migration and Master Data Templates. I have never really used the Migration tool, as it just seemed to be too limited, compared to what you can accomplish with standard dataports. During my last go-live the...

As a NAV developer there are basically only 2 books to live by: Application Designers Guide
(Also available in the F1 Online Help in the application)
C/AL Programming Guide
(Programming-, Naming-, Numbering-conventions in NAV) These books should be mandatory reading by any developer/person doing development...